Legal Opinion
Bernard Hawkins v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 7, 2013No. 11-1245PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the denial of a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 to set aside the sentence in a federal criminal case presents the question whether an error in calculating the applicable guidelines sentencing range can be corrected in a post-conviction proceeding, now that the guidelines are merely advisory rather than, as they formerly were, mandatory.
Bernard Hawkins has a long, long history of violent crimes, gun offenses, escapes, drug use, and violations of supervised release. In May 2003 he assaulted two U.S. marshals who were trying to arrest him pursuant to a bench…
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